From Francis Scott Key’s pen in 1814 through war, peace and even Jimi Hendrix’s screeching electric guitar at Woodstock, the Star Spangled Banner has lasted as an American icon — and an anthem that’s nearly impossible to sing. But as Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information Schooldiscovered when studying Key’s rockets’-red-glare-lit inspiration for his Documents that Changed the […]
Lincoln, Neb., September 3rd, 2014 —A Latino defendant convicted of murder who is poor is more likely to be sentenced to death by white jurors, a new study shows. The study was conducted by UNL psychology and ethnic studies professor Cynthia Willis-Esqueda and her colleague, Russ K.E. Espinoza of California State University, Fullerton, who earned […]
When asked why he did it, Goleta area man, Nicolas Holzer, said, ” I had to,” after he was arrested on charges of slaughtering his family and dog with kitchen knives, thought to be the murder weapons, late Monday night in southern California. Up until this incident in Santa Barbara county, 45-year-old Holzer had a clean […]
The Pacific Northwest has been inundated with wildfires most stemming from lightning strikes during summer storms. Four of these wildfires can be seen in this natural-color Aqua satellite image collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument aboard. This image was taken on August 11, 2014. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, […]